Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The writer Mário de Andrade reviews Feuilles de route [Leaves of the Road], the book by the Swiss poet Blaise Cendrars, illustrated by Tarsila do Amaral. The reviewer refers to the Brazilian countryside, which he compares with Cendrars’ writing [...]

Written to be included in the catalogue for the first female solo exhibition of the work of painter Tarsila do Amaral in Paris in 1926, this poem by the Swiss poet Blaise Cendrars captures the vision he had of Lake Lehman (Geneva) while in the [...]

This document is the catalogue for a solo exhibition of work by Tarsila do Amaral at Galerie Percier in Paris, which featured works from her Pau-Brasil period. The preface, written by Swiss poet Blaise Cendrars, came to be known as the poem to “Sã [...]